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Monday,
April 23rd, 11:00 am EST
The
Polk County
Public School District has installed bioLock from
realtime
to prevent unauthorized access and ensure
well-intentioned “delegation.”
ATLANTA,
Georgia, April.
23rd
realtime
North America, Inc. (www.realtimenorthamerica.com) has announced that
its award-winning bioLock software has been installed by
the Polk County School District in Florida.
The
Polk County School District is using SAP®
solutions for most of the district’s business
processes: HR, Payroll, Finance and Budgeting, Asset
Management, Purchasing, Warehousing, Work Orders and
Project Systems. The
School District’s policy
states that user ID’s are not to be shared and
passwords are not to be written down and posted on or
near workstations, but sometimes it happens anyway. The
primary concern is to protect the user logon to ensure
“accountability” for the principal acting as the
“CEO” of the individual school.
The
school district is using biometric mice as well as
keyboards from Cherry Electrical Products to protect the
logon to SAP applications for principals and other users
with access to critical information. The technology also
enables a well-intentioned “delegation” which
ensures the principal’s secretary will be uniquely
identified while using the principal’s user ID to SAP
applications, if authorized to do so. In the Procurement
area, bioLock will serve as a biometric segregation of
duty (SoD), among other things, to approve a purchase
order requisition release. bioLock will be used in the
HR area for approving the time entry in the payroll
system. In the future, the School District also plans to
implement bioLock as “true” electronic signature
into specific workflows.
During
the RSA keynote speech Art
Coviello, president of the RSA Security division of EMC,
stated “We need to secure the king instead of the
castle. Information is king and it likes to move
around.” Thomas Neudenberger, COO of realtime North
America, Inc. further comments, ”bioLock is the fist
technology that truly focuses on protecting ‘the
king’.”
bioLock
can restrict the logon to SAP applications (security
level I), every transaction (level II), and any fields
or info types (level III).
Independent from the user of an SAP solution,
bioLock will uniquely identify the “actual user” and
log his or her activities in the standard log file. With
this leading identity management solution for SAP
solutions, one now has proof who did what and when
within the system.
Persons in critical departments such as finance,
HR, IT, production, management, and other selected
employees handling sensitive data are equipped with
bioLock to protect the company from fraud and help them
to comply with mandatory regulations.
bioLock will guarantee more accurate audits and
will help to comply with critical regulatory mandates
such as the California Act, HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley.
Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires
certifying that companies have established and
maintained internal controls and will assess and audit
their systems’ effectiveness annually. The latest
version of bioLock is compatible with most leading
fingerprint readers and laptops with build in
fingerprint scanners such as HP, Dell or Lenovo (IBM).
The
Polk County School District has taken an innovative and
proactive approach to protect their confidential data
and the privacy of their employees and students to
comply with mandatory regulations. Cyndi Wolf, Director
for Systems and Applications at the Polk School District
states, “It is time to look beyond insecure and
expensive passwords. Biometrics increases security and
convenience!” Wolf and Neudenberger will co-present
bioLock as an innovative and proactive solution for
security and compliance to motivate other Public and
Private organizations at the 2007 Annual ASUG conference
and SAPPHIRE® ’07 Atlanta, SAP’s
international customer conference.
About
realtime:
realtime
was established in Europe by former senior SAP employees
in 1986 with an emphasis on innovative, inexpensive, and
convenient solutions for access control, authorization
profile management, expert consulting, and advanced
security to include biometrics.
realtime has a client base of over 200
"Fortune Global 500" customers in Europe and
in North America, including the U.S. Army, Bayer,
DaimlerChrysler, Siemens, Toyota, Procter & Gamble,
DuPont, Marathon Oil, Nestlé, and others.
Brevard
County Government won the prestigious InfoWorld 100
Award in 2003 using bioLock to comply with HIPAA. realtime also supports clients with both consulting
services and software solutions.
In addition to bioLock, realtime has over 150
clients using its other popular software solutions such
as APM, a complete risk and role management system for
SAP solutions.
realtime
AG is an SAP Software Partner
and SAP Services Partner with solutions that have
achieved certified integration with SAP solutions.
realtime is also a member of SAP’s industry value
network for Public Sector.
For
more information about realtime, bioLock, and other
solutions designed for use with SAP solutions, see www.realtimenorthamerica.com
and www.biolock.us
and www.sapaudit.us
About
Polk County School District:
The school
district is the eighth largest in Florida and among the
40 largest nationally. Polk has almost 160 school
sites and centers including 62 elementary schools, 19
middle/junior high schools and 18 senior high schools.
Also included are charter schools, vocational and
technical centers, adult schools and alternative
schools. Nearly 93,000 students are enrolled.
The district is the largest employer in Polk County with
more than 11,500 employees. About half of those
are employed as teachers. The mission of Polk
County School Board is to ensure rigorous, relevant
learning experiences that result in high achievement.
realtime
North America Inc.
World Trade Center
Tampa, FL 33602
Toll-Free:
1 877 bioLock
Phone: +1 813 283 0070
Fax: +1 813 283 0071
press@realtimenorthamerica.com
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